Kansas and Kansas Republicans in NY Times today

A breaking article on the sad, sad state of Kansas politics in general and the Kansas Republican Party, specifically:

The End of a Kansas Tradition: Moderation

I doubt there is any better (worse?) example of a group of people voting against their own best self-interests than middle- and lower-class Kansans voting the Republican Party but there you are.

Link to full story here: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/the-end-of-a-kansas-tradition-moderation/